- Tuesday’s numbers: Megyn Kelly-Bill O’Reilly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- New Fox News leaders Shine, Abernathy signed to multi-year deals.
- Lachlan Murdoch: ‘It would be foolish‘ to change Fox News’s ‘voice’.
- Concha: Evidence, facts rebut ‘laughable’ Amanpour sexism sermon.
- Out# video: Powell emails reveal ‘smack talk’ re Hillary
- Grinapol: Gloria Borger previews her CNN special Almost President.
- Concha: Despite MS, cancer, heart surgery, Neil Cavuto perseveres.
- Kelly File video: on Clinton’s emails, and his new book.
- Fox News lawyers vs Fox News lawyers. Two Ailes houses go on the market.
- Darcy: Anti-Trumpers have Hannity ‘backed into a corner‘. Q&A: Chuck Todd.
Month: September 2016
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Perino/Stirewalt podcast leads to a Sunday 5pm election-themed show.
- Baier, Hume helped lead crushing FNC win; Cavuto sets records on FBN.
- Concha: How a smartphone video changed cable news’ Clinton coverage.
- Q&A: Greta talks about Hillary, the media, her future. Weekend numbers.
- Wemple calls O’Reilly historical book series ‘moribund’: #1
- Videos: Bill O’Reilly talks politics, Ailes, and more on Today; on F&F.
- Echoing Brian Stelter, another CNN host paints Hillary as a victim of sexism.
- Kelly File video: What impact will have on the campaign?
- What WebMD learned from CNN.com. HuffPo: There are no journalists on tv.
- Wemple: University to de-Ailes its newsroom, but the scholarship he funds stays.
Monday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Maddow-Lawrence O’Donnell 1-2-3.
- Concha: Stelter’s reporting compromised by pro-Clinton partisanship.
- Rothstein: Stelter not alone in towing Clinton camp’s line on coverage.
- Video: Courtney Friel … to reveal she is seven years sober.
- A good week for Bill, Megyn, and Rachel. Adams: O’Reilly tackles WWII.
- Wemple: Mr Murdoch goes to Washington. Will FNC swing to the center?
- Olby resurfaces. CNN hires Melissa Bell. Bourdain awarded. This is CNN.
- CNN soft-sells Hillary medical incident, scolds channel that scooped them.
- Profile: CNN exec Tony Maddox. Sabin: Greta does first post-Fox ‘broadcast‘.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- Media Buzz videos: The terror
- Reliable Sources videos: Aaron Brown; questioning Matt Lauer; Ailes again.
- Hillary incident triggers Concha, Stelter crossfire:
- Why Bill O’Reilly is the go-to media figure for a tough Trump interview.
- FNC’s Sean Hannity in an epic twitter spat with FNC’s Rich Lowry et al.
- Q&A: Juan Williams discusses We the People. Sunday talkers: preview.
- Hogue: Thumbs up for ‘smart, sexy’ Nauert on F&FW. 9/11 coverage plans.
- Video: Brock for going after Chris Wallace. More. Request denied.
- Kilmeade audio: on her Out# Kaepernick comments.
- Stanley: The curious case of Susan Estrich, Roger’s liberal Democrat defender.
- Your Buzz videos: Trump Trump crazy
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: Megyn Kelly-Bill O’Reilly-Hannity 1-2-3.
- Griswold: Why Chris Wallace is right about fact-checking debaters.
- Lean Lean: MSNBC cuts over a dozen producers in ‘restructuring’.
- Outnumbered video: in email flap. Q&A: Bret Baier.
- Gray: Sean Hannity hasn’t changed, ridicules rumors of ‘Trump TV’.
- Today’s firing demand: Drop Chris Wallace from third Prez debate.
- Today’s CNN Lauer piece. Video: with Charlie Rose.
- Today’s NY Times Matt Lauer piece. Today’s bonus NYT Lauer piece.
- Flood: CNN’s 9/11 remembers the day, the dust, and the ‘legacy kids’.
- Turner wants to sell its channels directly to consumers via streaming.
- Pamela Brown, Eugene Scott on distinguished list. Q&A: Robin Meade.
- Videos: on nitpicking; did Brian Stelter?
- Geraldo book deal axed because he defended Ailes. Greta blames execs.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: MSNBC forum-Megyn Kelly-Maddow 1-2-3.
- Brit boom: On the Record ratings jump, topping MSNBCNN combined.
- Tuesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Megyn Kelly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
- Outnumbered video: Kids on bikes elderly Chicago man.
- Concha: Matt Lauer bullied and shamed for not ‘taking down’ Trump.
- Grynbaum: Lauer performance panned by ‘critics of all political stripes’.
- Hannity tells Wemple: ‘The difference between me and you is, I’m honest.’
- Greta to FNC: Can I have my pictures back? Maryanne Rafferty resurfaces.
- Grove: The only person who needs Brian Williams’s show is Brian Williams.
- Flood: Without Ailes, FNC scores five weekly primetime cable wins in a row.
- Kelly File videos: Analysis of ‘Commander-in-Chief Forum’
- Guthrie: Gretchen Carlson settlement could launch ‘repositioning’ of Fox News.
Wednesday Links and Open Thread
- James Rosen finds ‘a ghost in our midst’. Anthony Bourdain in Houston.
- FTV Live: Ex-FNCer Juliet Huddy insists Roger Ailes is not her godfather.
- Joyella: Jim VandeHei launches news site that will partner with (MS)NBC.
- Sunday showdown: MediaBuzz edged out CNN Reliable. Weekend numbers.
- Kelly File video: on destroying evidence under subpoena.
- Wemple can’t fathom suing Gabriel Sherman, is hoping for more ‘good news‘.
- Flood: Execs saw ‘writing on the wall‘. Fleming: Megyn hires outside publicist.
- Concha: Greta didn’t realize how good she had it before she called Fox’s bluff.
- Stelter: Greta told Fox on 9/1 she was quitting, expected time for ‘graceful exit’.
Tuesday Links and Open Thread
- Friday’s numbers: Maddow-McKelway (Bret)-Tucker (Hannity) 1-2-3.
- Q&A: Bret Baier discusses Ailes, Special Report ‘on steroids’, and more.
- Bill O’Reilly and Hannity also have the ‘Ailes clause’ in their contracts.
- Stay Classy: Erik Wemple headlines Greta’s FNC exit with ‘Good News’.
- Greta invoked contract clause to renegotiate. Greta’s statement. More.
- Greta leaving Fox News; Brit Hume to anchor 7:00 pm. Announcement.
- Zurawik: Settlement, Greta exit have Fox making news for wrong reasons.
- No interviews? BriWi’s text statement on his MSNBC show. Neil is back.
- Fox News joins legal filings against gag orders over government searches.
- Video: Fox and Friends bids farewell to Maria Molina with
- ‘Ailes paying‘ report from Sherman ‘sources’ debunked in under four hours.
- Concha: For Gretchen, it was never about money; she still has a future in tv.
- Lean Forward: Fox nemesis Sherman is now officially on the MSNBC payroll.
- Ellison: Lawsuit settlement earns Gretchen Carlson $20 million plus apology.
- Ailes lawyer asks Sherman, mag to preserve documents for ‘defamation claim’.
- Steinberg: The attorney who took down Gawker is now working for Roger Ailes.
‘You’re Going to Do Amazing Things’
J$P Video! Anna Kooiman has left the building:
From Fox & Friends 5 September 2016
Confessions of a Fox News ‘Sock Puppet’
A little while ago, after Andrea Tantaros’s lawsuit was made public, your humble correspondent was approached by Mediaite for an interview on the subject of Fox News ‘sock puppet’ twitter accounts. I said yes; Lindsey Ellefson submitted the questions via email and I responded. But the contemplated Mediaite post didn’t pan out, and Ms Ellefson agreed that we could publish the Q&A here, at J$P.
Weekend Links and Open Thread
- Report: Dr Drew refused CNN demand to retract Hillary comments.
- Videos: F&F Weekend‘s goodbye to Anna Kooiman
- Media Buzz videos: The media the
- Reliable Sources videos: Media soft on Trump; playing doctor; Glenn Beck.
- Chris Hayes tweet called anti-Semitic. What’s bothering Chuck Todd.
- Greta: This is unfair; why do these haters come out of the woodwork?
- Your Buzz videos: Hillary; the guests?
- New Jersey hero: How can HLN call it an error? Sunday talkers: preview.
- Borger and Brown discuss their CNN docs with Lindsey Ellefson, Joe Concha.
Friday Links and Open Thread
- Thursday’s numbers: O’Bolling-The Five-Anderson Cooper 1-2-3.
- Univision exec to debate commission: Sorry, that’s not good enough.
- Video: to being chosen Prez debate moderator.
- Wemple: How long can Brian Williams continue to shelter himself?
- F&F zings Tim Kaine for doing every morning show but theirs; video.
- The Kelly File video: Is DHS formulating a
- Q&A: Don Lemon talks about The Donald. Post-speech Hannity: Yuge!
- Debate moderators include Cooper, Chris Wallace. Concha: Slam-dunk.
- Sherman’s Ailes rehash suggests some of Megyn Kelly’s reporting is ‘racist’.
Thursday Links and Open Thread
- Wednesday’s numbers: Hannity-Bream (for Megyn)-O’Bolling 1-2-3.
- Katz: Cable newsers scramble to cover hurricane landfall in Florida.
- CNN airs F-bombs, but they draw the line at allowing this on the air.
- Q&A: Lisa Ling, ‘fearless adventurer’. Debate moderator speculations.
- Steinberg: CNN preps back-to-back documentaries on Trump, Clinton.
- MSNBC sets debut of The 11th Hour with Brian Williams for Sept 6; more.
- Erik Wemple thinks Megyn Kelly and Fox News are caught ‘in a book bind‘.
- French: Fox is a cocoon! Domenech: Most FNC viewers are not conservative.